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by norir 3y ago
I noticed the train wreck phenomenon she described around 2009 on facebook and immediately quit knowing that I lacked the self control to look away. I post from multiple anonymous hn accounts to test ideas and make a point of not acquiring
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by norir 3y ago
I personally think of a transpiler as a transliteration compiler. Say my favorite language is scala but I want to write a neovim plugin which must be written in lua. I can write a compiler that transliterates scala val greet = (whom: St
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by norir 3y ago
Yes, the obvious way to do this is have the compiler add a context parameter to every function that allocates memory or dereferences a pointer (semantically). To run the program, the main function ala c initializes the context and passes it
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by norir 3y ago
Here are the features that I think are most important for compiler development: 1) built in eval -- this allows you to transpile to the host language which is invaluable for writing small tests 2) multiline string syntax -- for evaling more
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by norir 3y ago
It is interesting to me that you read all of the books even though the first one didn't speak to you. Maybe the more important question to ask is why you felt compelled to continue reading in spite of your dislike of the works? Perhaps
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by norir 3y ago
> LLMs are forcing us to confront the fact that intelligence isn't some magic force or elusive unobtanium--it's just the product of brute force pattern matching. Always be wary of the word just.
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by norir 3y ago
> How do you get more heroic than that? Do the same things without owning people.
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by norir 3y ago
I suspect the most underrated skill for learning music is listening. With a close listen, it becomes obvious that when I play piano (novice at best), even just a single note does not sound as good as an excellent player. Once you've id
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by norir 3y ago
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
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by norir 3y ago
I have much more faith in democracy, flawed as it is, than the Supreme Court. > Surely you see the point of the US being a republic; rule by law, not by men. Men wrote the laws. > In your vision of the supreme court, if the majority d
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by norir 3y ago
Do you fear Jung's ideas? If they are incoherent garbage with no merit, shouldn't they just collapse under their own weight?
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by norir 3y ago
To be fair to Jung, he did not believe that anyone was a pure introvert or extrovert but he needed to use caricatures to illustrate the concepts. He also explicitly warns in Psychological Types not to use his ideas to create a personality c
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by norir 3y ago
I like this idea. A somewhat related idea I've had is that instead of giving the supreme court ultimate power to overrule and/or reinterpret existing legislation they instead would be given power to call a referendum. Each justice
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by norir 3y ago
Yes, sadly the software industry isn't immune to our society level race to the bottom.
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I think an interested reader can get a lot of Gravity & Grace (which I recently completed) without much background in philosophy so long as one accepts that they won't understand _everything_ she writes. Given the mystical nature o
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by norir 3y ago
Regardless of their skill, they only get one chance to make a first impression.
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by norir 3y ago
I'm sure you know this, but as a general psa: threads are the lowest common denominator way of doing this kind of thing. Where possible, it is nicer to use epoll/kqueue/whatever the windows equivalent is. For a library though
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by norir 3y ago
When a main goal to maximize a subjective trait such as "developer happiness," you are almost certain to cause the opposite for a significant portion of your users. This is the curse of inherited ruby code.
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by norir 3y ago
You may be interested in Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil which takes a more mystical approach to these ideas.
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This is a great trick, but no one should ever run someone else's script that does this unless they have verified the script line by line beforehand.
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by norir 3y ago
Wow, I did not know that story but it makes so much sense that the ipod was an almost inevitable development from the mini hdd. Goes to show how important it is to have people who can see the big picture and find the right people to execute
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by norir 3y ago
Sure, there is a lot of code that is doing something, but is it doing the right thing correctly and efficiently? It's likely that a > 500k sloc project is filled with low quality and inefficient code. I'm pretty sure this is a
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by norir 3y ago
> If not, it also just renders humanity a very small phenomenon compared to something else that is far more intelligent and will become incomprehensible to us, as incomprehensible to us as we are to cockroaches. This seems like the react
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One might be forgiven for wondering if PG gets paid by the word.
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High RSS makes me wonder how well the language is designed and implemented. Luajit gives you many of the things racket does (and can be easily extended to add any racket feature) without having crazy high RSS. Even though it may seem minor,
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It is surprising to me that academics would not think that it is worth optimizing RSS for hello, world.
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A vim plugin would be a nice enhancement to the OP.
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> Or is it "any waiting is bad"? Yes, this is the problem. Waiting is always bad for productivity. Even a second is long enough to lose a bit of focus. When that stretches out to 10 seconds, it starts getting tempting to, say,
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by norir 3y ago
Kaczynski needs to be understood as much as a brilliant propagandist as a philosopher. Dismissing him as a philosopher because he drew his ideas from others misses the point. Regardless of what one thinks of the man, his ideas and actions (
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by norir 3y ago
One important difference between Kaczynski and political leaders is that Kaczynski acted on his own autonomy. Political and military leaders require others to carry out their violence which defuses the moral stain by making so many others c

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